GTA: San Andreas's Original PC Version Can Now Be Beaten in Just an Hour Thanks to the Weirdest Skip You've Ever Seen

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is 22 years old, which arsenic you tin ideate means that radical person cracked that crippled wide unfastened with weird glitches, skips, and tricks. Over the years, speedrunners person recovered ways to interruption San Andreas that got an any% speedrun of it down to a small nether 3 hours, but precocious an perfectly buckwild bug was recovered that chopped that clip down adjacent further, to nether an hour. Buckle up, folks, due to the fact that this is 1 heck of a wacky speedrun.

First, immoderate context. San Andreas has been breached and rebroken galore times implicit the years crossed its aggregate versions, and there's 1 circumstantial "trick" that's upended the speedrunning scenery aggregate times. It really originated successful GTA: Vice City, wherever a instrumentality known arsenic Script Stack Underflow (SSU) was recovered that chopped an any% tally down to astir 8 minutes. Way backmost successful 2019, San Andreas runners recovered thing akin that they called "Arbitrary Jump successful Script", oregon AJS, specifically successful the Window Store remaster of the game. This overly-complex instrumentality fundamentally fto speedrunners leap consecutive to the extremity of the crippled by doing a agelong bid of precise circumstantial things specified arsenic sidesplitting a cause dealer, parking a motorcycle successful a precise circumstantial place, answering the telephone astatine precise circumstantial times, and diligently avoiding vending machines astatine each costs.

While involved, it demonstrably worked, with the extremity effect being the crippled executing a "JUMP" bid to the commencement of End of the Line Part 3, the last mission. Ever since past the speedrunning assemblage has had to divided the class into any% and any% nary AJS, due to the fact that watching a tally with AJS is amusive precisely erstwhile and past you truly conscionable privation to ticker a proper, action-packed, multi-hour San Andreas speedrun. For a agelong time, this skip was constricted to the Windows Store mentation of the game, though it was aboriginal recovered successful the Definitive Edition remaster with immoderate important setup differences.

Well now, speedrunners person figured retired however to bash AJS successful the archetypal PC mentation of San Andreas. It is also wholly antithetic successful however it's acceptable up, and is someway adjacent wackier than immoderate of the versions that person travel before. u/Vitosi4ek connected Reddit has a truly bully breakdown of each the steps progressive (though immoderate runners person already recovered ways to creaseless retired definite bits of it). These include: winning $10,000 connected equine betting, making a clone of yourself, doing stunt jumps connected a superbike, betting successful the casino with antagonistic money, changing your clothes, doing a creation minigame, moving 2 Mission astatine the nonstop aforesaid time, and a batch more. All of this volition hopefully, if the crippled doesn't crash, nonstop you to the commencement of End of the Line Part 3, and fto you decorativeness the crippled close there.

This glitch was virtually conscionable discovered, and successful that clip the satellite grounds tally for an any% of GTA: San Andreas has dropped down to 53 minutes and 46 seconds by creezyful. It's precise apt that this clip volition get adjacent much shaved disconnected successful the coming days and weeks arsenic speedrunners proceed to optimize. This has besides resulted successful the assemblage splitting any% disconnected from any% nary AJS, truthful audiences tin inactive bask a astir three-hour tally of San Andreas and each the hyjinks progressive successful that.

It's wildly awesome to maine that radical are inactive managing to ace games this aged unfastened adjacent much than they've already been, and marque their guts bash ridiculous things. Just this past AGDQ, I watched idiosyncratic tally arbitrary codification execution successful The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, thing I'm beauteous definite they didn't cognize however to bash the past clip the crippled was astatine the show. Video games, man!

Unfortunately, that does mean it'll astir apt beryllium a agelong clip earlier we get a tally of GTA 6 that goes that fast. And that's if we tin adjacent marque it to motorboat time this November.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].